Mr. Steve and the gang host story time every Wednesday at 11 AM in the upstairs children's section of Vroman's Bookstore.
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Vroman’s Bookstore: Dr. Darby Saxbe, in conversation with Ken Bensinger, discusses & signs DAD BRAIN
Vroman’s Bookstore: Dr. Darby Saxbe, in conversation with Ken Bensinger, discusses & signs DAD BRAIN
When we talk about the transformative experience of birth and child-rearing, we almost always focus on mothers. While biomedical research oversamples men, the opposite is true when it comes to research on birth and parenting. In the past few decades, studies have proliferated on how women’s bodies and brains change as they begin their families. […]
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The Pasadena Conservatory of Music will be putting on a special musical storytime with the featured book: This Is a Moment by Micah Player. Caregivers and children aged 3-9 will enjoy a story, creative movement, and a mini-concert!
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"'Someone Should Know This Story' is both the name of this book and the wish of my heart," writes Merrill Joan Gerber in the introduction to this retrospective collection of twenty-five stories written over a period of four decades, many of which won awards and appeared in widely read periodicals such as The New Yorker, […]
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When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop? No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were. For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his […]
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Beloved New York Times bestselling author Lisa See draws on the vibrancy and turmoil of post-Civil War Los Angeles to tell the story of three Chinese women who managed to survive and, eventually, thrive, despite all odds. In 1870, three Chinese women arrived in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the […]
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Mr. Steve and the gang host story time every Wednesday at 11 AM in the upstairs children's section of Vroman's Bookstore.
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It’s late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The Russkies blinked and pulled their ICBMs out of Cuba. Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from seething commies. He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job. Freddy Otash is injudiciously named the lead investigating officer. He’s a stone-cold criminal […]
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Dragons, Duels, and Dazzling Reads is a free Summer Reading Program for young readers in grades Pre-K-12. Join the Vroman’s Children’s Department on an adventure-filled journey, designed to encourage a love of books amongst the youngest of readers, with events and prizes (and dragons) along the way! To participate: 1. Stop by the Children’s Department to […]
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In this spellbinding fantasy debut set in a future where language magic reigns, a young Hawaiian woman must solve a murder to clear her name. Kea Petrova is dealing with more than her fair share of trouble. At just twenty-five years old, she's the youngest of five Hawaiian clan leaders living on the Homestead in […]
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In the vein of Pineapple Street and Such a Fun Age, a smart, heartfelt debut novel about two expecting mothers navigating motherhood, family life, and female friendship, whose bond is threatened by a shocking revelation. Victoria and Liz barely breathe the same air, but they collide headfirst when they meet in a group for expectant […]
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American Trojan is the captivating story of a refugee who lost everything and then rebuilt it all, an immigrant who defied the odds and achieved the American Dream; a visionary technologist who transformed the University of Southern California into one of the nation's most prestigious private research universities. At a time when many universities have […]
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An ambitious memoir in essays by beloved bestselling author Reyna Grande that illuminates the hidden cost of the American Dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival. What is the true power of stories? Can they heal the jagged edges of a traumatic childhood? Is the cost of telling the story worth the […]
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Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, it’s his last day with the FBI. But before he can turn in his badge, he’s summoned back to Denver, the city he ran from four years ago, with a chilling message: it's happening again. Seemingly innocent people are waking […]
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"A moving and inspiring book about the most important topic facing all of us." --Johann Hari, author of New York Times bestselling book Stolen Focus Who will you become when you put down your phone and pick up your life? The average smartphone user spends the equivalent of 61 to 80 days per year on […]
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Mr. Steve and the gang host story time every Wednesday at 11 AM in the upstairs children's section of Vroman's Bookstore.
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Isa has a gift. Premonitions, intuitive insight, a knack for tarot. But she is adrift. Years ago, she ran away from one coast to the other and never looked back, but when her brother Cole unexpectedly shows up on her stoop, she's convinced that it's time to go home. Back in the California desert, Isa […]
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In this fearless and inspiring memoir, trailblazing journalist Joan Lunden pulls back the curtain on the defining moments that shaped her extraordinary life--from breaking barriers on national television to reshaping motherhood, survivorship, and aging on her own terms. Since bursting onto the national morning news scene in 1980 as cohost of Good Morning America, Joan […]
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Vroman’s Bookstore: Daniel Brewer and Paul Paolilli read from & sign Pondering: A Story in Cinquains
Vroman’s Bookstore: Daniel Brewer and Paul Paolilli read from & sign Pondering: A Story in Cinquains
This lyrically written and gorgeously illustrated ode to ponds is crafted in a uniquely American poetic form called American cinquain. In this glorious celebration of nature, three girls walk an old trail in search of a hidden pond, marveling at treasures they discover along the way--darting dragonflies, croaking bullfrogs, fluttering sycamore leaves, and more. Written […]
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From the author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction winner The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu comes a tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful, mysterious, and morally dubious military secret shapes their lives. "Lin's gossamer prose is patient and full of wonders."-- […]
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Slow Guillotine follows three broke weirdos whose collective desire to make and think about art is constantly interrupted by their art-industry-adjacent minimum-wage jobs. Throughout the novel, the three friends' day jobs in a failing independent bookstore, a sterile gallery in downtown Manhattan, and miscellaneous living rooms across the Long Island birthday-party-clown circuit interweave with their […]
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A former Obama speechwriter moves to the Jersey Shore and learns to surf with the help of his brother-in-law: a tattooed, truck-driving Joe Rogan superfan. David, the Yale-educated writer with a fear of sharks, and Matt, the daredevil electrician with a shed full of surfboards, had never been close. But as America's crises piled up […]
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Mr. Steve and the gang host story time every Wednesday at 11 AM in the upstairs children's section of Vroman's Bookstore.
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The Vroman’s Fiction Reading Group explores contemporary fiction -long and short– from a diverse selection of writers. Enjoy lively discussions at our one-hour meetings. Our Fiction Reading Group is free and inclusive – there are no requirements nor criteria to join. We announce upcoming titles 3-6 months in advance and choose titles that are available in […]
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What begins as a personal journey of late-life reckoning becomes a noir-tinged meditation on memory, mortality, and the search for purpose. By turns darkly funny and melancholic, Fells Point captures a soul—and a city—at a crossroads. Daniel Doyle Jr., a jaded, middle-aged corporate communications flack in Baltimore, is drifting through life under a literal death […]
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Vroman's Summer Sale starts on Saturday, July 25th! The sale is located upstairs in the Vroman's Event Space. All sales are final. May not be combined with other discounts.
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From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gay Bar comes a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love. NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New Yorker Best Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books of the Year Time Out 10 Best Books of the Year NPR Books We Love 2025 It's 1996, and Jeremy Atherton […]
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Mr. Steve and the gang host story time every Wednesday at 11 AM in the upstairs children's section of Vroman's Bookstore.
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Moby-Dick meets The Bone Shard Daughter in this swashbuckling queer fantasy adventure packed with piracy, political intrigue, and the eternal souls of the drowned, for fans of The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi and Black Sun. An exiled pirate queen hunts a killer whale on the high seas, while caught between a power-hungry empress and a […]
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Join Vroman's on Thursday, July 2nd, at 11 am for an air-dry clay activity led by Vroman’s resident artist, Kat! Construct miniature sculptures (or just let your imagination run wild) in a guided craft. Materials will be provided.
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